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	Dr. Tereza Petrusková - Tereza is behavioural ecologist, focusing her research on songbird vocalisation and bird territorial behaviour. She is particularly interested in spatial variation in birdsong and factors that affect it, and in functions of specific song structures. Her model bird species include in particular pipits, nightingales and bluethroats, and yellowhammers. She had a key role in establishing the citizen science project on yellowhammer dialects in the Czech Republic.
	Prof. Adam Petrusek - Adam is an aquatic ecologist by training, whose main model organisms are freshwater crustaceans but he got later involved in various additional ecological and evolutionary projects. Having been a partner of Tereza for almost two decades, research of bird behaviour and vocalization became one of his “extended marital duties”. He is skilled in fieldwork including birdsong recording, data processing, and frequently serves as the “devil’s advocate” when preparing projects or drafting publications.
	Dr. Pavel Pipek - After finishing his MSc. thesis on behavioural ecology, his focus shifted to invasion ecology (especially of mammals and birds). He got involved in setting up the website for the citizen science project on yellowhammer dialects in the Czech Republic thanks to his experience with webdesign. Soon he realised that research of birdsong dialects and invasion ecology may have more in common than it seems... and the project focusing on populations introduced to New Zealand is the result.
	Lucie Diblíková, PhD student Her master thesis focused on geographical distribution of yellowhammer dialects in the Czech Republic. She became a key person of the project 'Dialects of Czech Yellowhammers', being responsible for sound analysis as well as communication with volunteers. She is skilled in vector graphics and the characteristic design of yellowhammer project is her work.
	Hana Kahounová, PhD student Her master thesis (defended at Department of Zoology) focused on effect of melanin-based coloration and commensalism on behavior. Her PhD study will focus on geographic variation and functions of specific structures of the Tree Pipit song.
	Hana Kyliánková, master student Her master thesis focuses on the stability of boundaries of yellowhammer dialects. The other part is dedicated to rare dialects of yellowhammers, which where found during the project 'Dialect of Czech Yellowhammers'. She is also in her second year of additional pedagogical study at Charles University.
	Jan Kouřil, master student For his master study he is working on our project of exploring and monitoring the individually distictive first syllable variability of yellowhammers.
	Javier Oñate Casado, PhD student Javi is from Spain. He has previously worked on songbird bioacoustics with the Hawaii elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis). He studied how males respond to conspecific songs in a playback study conducted at a small geographical scale. His PhD project will explore the cultural evolution of birdsong in space and time by comparing pipits from the mainland (Tawny pipits) and islands (Berthelot's pipits). He is particularly interested in the behavioral ecology of different taxa as well as bioacoustics and anthropogenic impacts on wildlife behavior, preferably when they are applicable for conservation goals. He loves fieldwork and feels especially motivated when it is conducted under harsh, physically demanding conditions.
	Belfu Çetinkaya, master student Belfu graduated at Middle East Technical University in 2020 in Ankara. For her master thesis, she is focusing on cultural evolution of Tree Pipit song at temporal (year-to-decade) as well as geographical scale. Her research is a part of larger project studying cultural evolution of songs in species with various song complexities.
	Lily Carolin Helmbold, master student Carolin got in touch with bioacoustics during her bachelor thesis in Freiburg, Germany. For her master thesis (at the Institute for Environmental Studies) she is focusing on the use of individual acoustic monitoring to study endangered species and the geographical variability of songs with the Meadow pipit as her model species.
	Dr. Abel Souriau Originally from France, Abel has successfully defended his PhD with us in October 2020. He took on the challenge to study the song of two of the most famous European songsters: the Common and the Thrush Nightingales, known for their complex and melodious singing. From the first focus on the curious song copying happening between these species, he extended his PhD project to topics such as the geographical variation of song, or the rather unstudied singing behaviour at the bird’s wintering grounds. His research interests range across behaviour and evolution across various groups, for which bioacoustic brings a fascinating angle of study.
	Monika Monika successfully defended her master thesis in 2021. She was a key person in the project "Deer voices", which aimed to map the distibution of hybrids between native red deer and invasive sikas by recordings of their vocalisation. Quite conveniently she was studying in parallel Operation and Game management at Czech University of Life Sciences too.
	Ondrej Belfin Ondra has found interest in bioacoustics already during the first year of high school when he started studying the song variability and singing activity of the Red-breasted Flycatcher as part of high school science project competition. He just finished his exchange study program in Australia and started to work on his bachelor thesis. He successfully defended bachelor thesis on low-amplitude songs in Passerines.
	Hana Kubátová, Her master thesis focusedon the effect of a dummy on passerine behavior in playback experiments. Her model species were chiffchaffs and yellowhammers.